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skirting board are MDF - checked and have not shrunk. There are no sleeper walls for extra supports - to add the sleeper wall means removing the floor.....sounds expensive. Fortunately, its shrunk approx 5mm everywhere - will the wooden joist shrink/dry out anymore? The joist were...

Hi - I have got a floating wooden joist floor. The joist are 6inches by 2inches. Covered with 18mm ply. Then I have got polyplumb overlay panels for under floor heating. Then ceramic tiles for finishing. Its been just over a year and now the floor has dropped by about 1/4inch all round...

Hi - I have got a floating wooden joist floor. The joist are 6inches by 2inches. Covered with 18mm ply. Then I have got polyplumb overlay panels for under floor heating. Then ceramic tiles for finishing. Its been just over a year and now the floor has dropped by about 1/4inch all round...

Fitted a new mixer shower and flow/pressure is rubbish. Cannot have a shower. Water comes out ~ 1litre/min when hot+cold. See picture for setup. Negative or Positive? Salamander said Negative but Stewart Turner recently said Positive, initially did not know a solution..... Salamander or...

I have a open vented system comprising of hot water cyclinder + water storage tank + vailant ecotec bolier. water storage tank is approx 0.5m above hot water cylinder. I want to fit power shower. 1) Aqualisa or mira digital pumped showers good? 2) Digital or individual pump? 3) Is 0.5m...

I have got a public sewer 3m away in my back garden. So my extension is 2.9m. Building Control approved my foundations and a 50mm clay master sheet was inserted between the sewer and concrete. Just heard from the water board that they are rejecting the foundation proposal because I need to...

I want to sound proof a party wall. Anyone done this before? Reccomended companies/suppliers? I'm fairly competent so I will be doing this by myself.

mark - what UFH water system do you have? The extension will be approx. 20m^2 and nuheat.co.uk sell a kit which comes with 2 coils. Agree - concrete takes longer to warm up and depends on depth of screed. However, all the builders have recommended water based system.

Good stuff - my plans got approved last week and both neighbours complained!! One of the neighbours wrote a 3 page letter of issues....most of it was funny in a strange way.... I think some neighbours try to act as planning officers.

Looking into undefloor heating for new kitchen extension. Floor will be concrete. What do you reccomend; 1) water - nuheat.co.uk. Can fit heat pump on this system. 2) electric - theres plenty of suppliers, not sure about running cost, sounds expensive.

Hey - the plans got approved. 2.9m for the attached neighbour and 4m for the unattached. 4m was allowed because the extension will be in-line with the unattached neighbour. A few extension on my street have the staggered design because not all of the houses are in-line. Now need to get...

Need a cheap 24 combi boiler for a rental flat which has 2 bedrooms. I'm getting the following boilers; 1) Main - £540, 1Yr guarantee 2) BRG - £460, 1Yr guarantee 3) sabre-vokera - £440, 2Yr guarantee Which one do guys reccomend?

Not mentioned it to him but a similar plan was approved on my street last year. So I cant see the problem. Spoke to the planning officer and he said it should not be a problem cos theres a 2.4m gap - but they need to do a site visit to check everything. The planning officer is due to come...

Planning officer said he needs to do a site visit to see if the comments are relevant. What do you mean by a planning consultant? The drawings submitted have been done by an architect who says he has done this type of development before......

I have made a pllaning application for a single storey rear/side extension - as shown below. The neighbours have written strong letters of objection. Does this affect granting of the planning application? One of the complaints I'm worried about is from Neighbour 'A' since they have a...

Need to get estimates for a rear extension - any numbers/names you suggest? Wheres the best place to look?

Jeds - is there a free copy of the Act? I tried looking for it.